مهتر

See also: مختر and محتر

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Borrowed from Persian (mehtar, “a chief or an elder”).

مَهْتَر or مِهْتَر • (mahtar or mihtar) m

Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مهتر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 620
Quatremère, Étienne Marc (1837) Histoire des sultans mamlouks, de l'Égypte. Tome premier, première partie.‎^[2] (in French), Paris: Oriental Translation Fund, page 162
Quatremère, Étienne Marc (1837) Histoire des sultans mamlouks, de l'Égypte. Tome premier, première partie.‎^[3] (in French), Paris: Oriental Translation Fund, page 120
Quatremère, Étienne Marc (1837) Histoire des sultans mamlouks, de l'Égypte. Tome premier, première partie.‎^[4] (in French), Paris: Oriental Translation Fund, page 173

From (meh, “big, great”) +‎ (-tar).

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [me̞ɦ.t̪ʰǽɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [mɪ.t̪ʰǽɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [mi.t̪ʰǽɾ]

مهتر • (mehtar) (plural مهتران (mehtarân))

Arabic: مِهْتَر (mihtar), مَهْتَر (mahtar), مِهْتَار (mihtār), مَهْتَار (mahtār)
Urdu: مہتر (mehtar)